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Since 1953, Guinness has made no more than token appearances in the theater-in Shakespeare at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, in The Prisoner in London. In 1955 he succumbed at last to Hollywood's enticements and starred with Grace Kelly in The Swan. He liked Hollywood ("so friendly"), but Hollywood figured Alec for an oddball. For one thing, he had a very peculiar diversion. He took walks. He took them, moreover, in Beverly Hills, where a man without a car is regarded with a good deal more suspicion than a man without trousers. The police stopped the fellow...
...plebiscite on the whole question. As 48,000 names were added to an antibomb petition circulating through twelve universities, 500 students from the Hamburg Engineering School marched silently through the Old City with placards saying "Remember Hiroshima!" Dock workers in Hamburg and auto workers in Brunswick went out on token strikes, and 936 Hamburg physicians solemnly warned that the people of West Germany had absolutely no defense against an atomic attack...
Kudner might soon have to return every token of its romance with G.M. Kudner hoped not. Though the agency lost nearly a third of its billings with Buick's departure, it still had hopes of holding on to its remaining General Motors' accounts (which made up nearly 40% of billings), immediately announced a change in top command. Last week Kudner knew the worst-all reconciliation had failed. Out went two more G.M. accounts, Frigidaire and the G.M.C. Truck and Coach Division, billing about $9,000,000 a year...
...from Korea, would like to voice a loud "hurrah," not only for Major Thomas James, but for your tactful story on a Korean "Slicky Boy" [March 10]. If anything, your article understated the plague which confronts our armed forces in Korea and the almost complete lack of anything but token cooperation from Korean civil and military authorities...
...token cut (to 35) has been made in the number of maternity beds to reduce overcrowding. Three rooms are being readied to replace the lethal nursery. But officials admit that these measures may prove useless: the whole maternity service may have to be moved to a new, clean, staph-free location...